metecyp wrote: Sorry my friend but I think you're trying to simplify the issue here. I don't think that turkcyp has "Ottoman" way of thinking and you have "European" way of thinking. Turkcyp has concerns for his community (like I do) and you have concerns for your community. He believes that ensuring bicommunality is the way to satisfy his community's concerns. I believe that ensuring bizonality along with bicommunality is the way to satisfy my community's concerns. For you, it's a different story. Your community is the majority so pluralism, pure democracy with no privliges, multiculturalism are all fair game because they cannot hurt your community. These words actually embellish your argument but we know your ultimate motive is to protect your community's interests.
We need to make sure we have a voice in Cyprus after 40 years of exclusion from decision-making. That's why we ask for safeguards which are completely compatible with EU values. If this is "Ottoman" way of thinking for you, let it be that but don't expect us to risk our future for the sake of "European" mentality.
Metecyp,
If you read more carefully my previous posting I said the following: “I said many times that I am willing to look at alternative and indirect ways in which the TC’s need for an effective political decision-making power will be satisfied. I even made suggestions towards this direction.” That simply means that I appreciated and respect your community’s particular interests and concerns and I am willing to accommodate them.
However, in your posting, do you mean to say that 95 thousand TCs plus 75 thousand Anatolian settlers on the one hand and 700 thousand GCs on the other hand, should be permanently segregated in an institutionalized manner and have an absolutely equal saying in the running of the country? Is this what you mean?
